Barbarian Architecture

Barbarian ArchitectureBy: Joanna Merwood Salisbury A richly visual architectural history and theory of modernity that reexamines Thorstein Veblens classic text The Theory of the Leisure Class through the lens of Chicago in the 1890s. An important critic of modern culture, American economist Thorstein Veblen is best known for the concept of conspicuous consumption, the ostentatious and wasteful display of goods in the service of social statusa term he coined in his 1899

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